Date:26/02/2003 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2003/02/26/stories/2003022601260901.htm

Miscellaneous - This Day That Age

dated February 26, 1953: Runstedt Dead:

A report from Hanover in Germany said that Field Marshal Gerd von Runstedt passed away there on the 24th. Runstedt had been a very important army leader of Hitler's Nazi Germany, and had led the last fling offensive against the Allies in Europe in the winter of 1944-45.